Our programmes
Real-world experience for our students — the next step after the classroom and the mentoring session.
Our third programme
Our summer school opens the door to STEM, and our online mentoring keeps it open. Work experience is the next step: a chance for the young people we work with to spend time in a real workplace.
Placements help students build practical skills, confidence and professional contacts, and give them experience they can draw on in university applications, interviews and their future careers.
What it offers
Time in a real workplace to see how the subjects studied at school and university are used day to day.
Longer placements that build practical skills and give students something concrete to talk about in applications and interviews.
A chance to meet people working in STEM and beyond, and to build the contacts that help open the next door.
Where our students go
Companies that have opened their doors to Bridging the Future students.
Artificial intelligenceDoubleword is an AI company that helps organisations run open-source AI models efficiently and at a fraction of the usual cost, powering everything from AI agents to large data-processing pipelines.
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Climate technologyGigaton is a London-based company building self-learning AI control software for energy-intensive industries such as cement, steel and glass, helping plants cut energy use and emissions. It began in 2020 as Carbon Re, a spinout from UCL and the University of Cambridge.
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Payments technologyGetnet is Santander’s global payments business, providing the technology that lets businesses of every size accept card and digital payments in store and online.
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Young people from refugee, asylum-seeking and forced-migrant backgrounds who have taken part in our programmes and want real-world experience.
Organisations that would like to host work experience and support a young person’s first steps into a career.
Our programmes
Our free Online Mentoring Programme starts again in October 2026, with weekly one-to-one STEM, IT and English support.
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